Ted Max

So have you been offered the lease on the Texaco garage at Goose Green roundabout?

I actually used to work with someone whose instant-coffee and cigarette breath was so foul it literally made me recoil so that I would be talking to her leaning back like a limbo dancer. No doubt she is now posting on some local message board about the foul creep she used to work with who couldn't hold a conversation without thrusting his groin at her.

Which method gives you the best breath for the 3:30 team meeting in Room 4, where the windows don't open and the A/C is recycling your exhalations at 20?C?

There's two schools of thought here. I usually just nick any lumps of whitener off the top of the coffee with the side of the spoon. If you're going down the sugar route, though, you can usually get everything stirred in at that point. The brown clags of sugar in the top of the bag can be unattractive, though. I use Mellow Birds because I find other brands give me the rankest instant coffee breath ever. Mellow Birds isn't too bad if you are masking the smell with a gasper or two.

I half fill my Stainless Steel Morphy Richards kettle, flick the switch on and then generally leave it until it has just clicked itself off. I then pour the bubbling Water onto two level teaspoons of Mellow Birds in a good quality Porcelain Mug. Sometimes I add Whitener, sometimes no. If you have left the teaspoon you used for the coffee in the mug, this is ideal for stirring the Whitener in with.

I think what Shaggy is telling us is that Monkey, a poster on these boards, is currently enjoying a cycling holiday in the US.

I was caught masticating in public once. It was highly embarrassing, but at least my mouth wasn't slackly agape at the same time.

It's a Fulham-ED-Blackheath chain, then.

Confidence-inspiring name for the Volcano. TimTim if you're going to Goa for a coupla weeks ad you don't know anything about it, you should at least get a Guardian blog out of it.

Panther, your very point was raised by the poster in question on the first page (in a less confusing manner as I don't think she got herself in a muddle like you did). And as to "Would you feel comfortable asking this question?" If it was made in an effort to enhance understanding of the issues in play (as I believe it was)- then why not? Of course, if you understand the question to be demanding justification, or aggressive in its intent, then I could see your point. But I think the poser of the question has demonstrated that s/he never meant that to be the case, despite some (at most) tactless phrasing.

See you later Alicia. Don't hurry back. (or is it really Snorky in disguise?)

They're all much of a muchness, with variations in quality principally around what specific dish you ordered, or just a bit of good or bad luck on the night. Tandoori Nights was always the exception - being two cuts above. Anyone who disagrees with this is clearly too oily.

I went to make a cup of tea but my colleague insisted that I try all the old herbal and other infusions that have been lying around unused for ages, before I got to see any of the good stuff. I said I wanted milk and two sugars but he suggested I think about only having one sugar for now, and maybe looking at adding another sugar later.

Ah...pre-marriage lessons. A captive audience, the chance to appear wise and kind, yet serious too. What man of the cloth could resist? Ours took the opportunity to lecture us on the evils of homosexual marriages. Whether he had suspicions that one of us was not entirely as advertised on the packet, I don't know, but it seemed a strange thing to focus on.

I certainly hope so.

Big Tone - hanging baskets and colourful flowers are all very well for Penge and Nunhead, but Lordship Lane is all about clean lines, architectural planting, and Christopher Bradley-Hole. I agree about the Christmas tree though. Although don't lights get strung into some of the existing tress on Goose Green, or is that my memory playing tricks?

There's one or two recent posts on Maxted specifically here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,61603,page=3 And an older thread here.

If it gets thuggish then it needs to be stopped. My point was more that general rowdyness isn't always as threatening as it seems.

Rowdy bus behaviour can be intimidating but if you tell yourself that it's nearly always no more than a little territory marking, then you can deal with it. If that doesn't work, you can twat them with your handy frame of reference.

I always keep a frame of reference handy.

I was just asking for clarification, not making any comment one way or the other.

They approach people who are not looking like they will attempt to kill them. Is that an admission that they only approach non-scary types?

What's a resident boy? And no, I don't know anyone who has been mugged recenlty.

Addict.

No need to be rude, Knomester!